▪ Abstract Rapid advances in the field of photorefractive polymers and composites have in
the brief time since their inception in 1991 led to the development of high-performance …

Considerable progress has been made in organic photorefractive materials, since the first
observation of photorefractive phenomena from organic materials. Within recent years, a …

A review of basic physical phenomena underlying the light-induced molecular reorientation
in nematic liquid crystals is presented. A detailed description of the mechanisms of direct …

The performance of amorphous organic photorefractive (PR) materials in applications such
as optical data storage is generally limited by the concentration of active molecules …

Materials demonstrating a photorefractive effect are principal candidates for numerous
applications, including high‐density optical data storage, optical image processing, phase …

Fullerenes enhance the photoconductivity of photoconductive polymers. This paper studies
the mechansim of enhancement both experimentally and theoretically. The effects of …

" Furnishes the necessary background information, methods of characterization, and
applications of optic and photonic systems based on polymers. Provides detailed tutorial …

Photorefractive polymers have gret potential in applications such as all‐optical switching
and optical communication. Here, new charge‐transporting polymers are presented based …

We report high-contrast storage of 64-kbit digital data pages in a photorefractive polymer
material. Single-page writing, reading, and erasing operations were demonstrated with a …

New conjugated carbazole trimers for photorefractive materials have been synthesized by
Pd-catalytic coupling reaction. These trimers were demonstrated to be amorphous by both …